Canada's northwest has been opened up by the Alaska Highway. This film looks at the construction of the highway and at the resources and development in the surrounding areas.
Out in the sticks, a young drifter goes wandering where he oughtn't. When a mysterious car appears, he exhibits more lust than sense and steps right into the web of a demonic Black Widow Queen. She'll leave him buried in the ground by day while she livesa normal life in the city. By night she returns to unearth him, to wake him from his eternal daze and toss him into the backseat ofa "ghost car" that car drives itself. The windows fog up and the lovers drift off into a smoky in-between place, where she takes on monstrously sensual new forms with which to devour him.
Following the steps of an English botanist, in the landscapes of the Normandy coast, people and cameras look at flowers. This is an essay on attention and friendship, a cinematic herbarium.
Lebanon, 2019-2023: a chronicle of the uprising, its fading and its end. From collective hope to intimate pain, can cinema resist the irreversible?
An eye opening documentary about the children living along the Belfast peace line and how their lives have changed through transcendental meditation (TM).
The opening performance of Nagasaki Stadium City attended by around 25,000 people.
Alexandru Popovici is a man obsessed with women, whom he films relentlessly. This montage of family and anonymous archives questions the male gaze in the era of Romanian totalitarianism.
On the 7th of February 2009, devastating bushfires tore through Victoria, Australia. Swathes of prime forest were destroyed and it's wildlife incinerated. But, against all odds, there were survivors of 'Black Saturday.'
Following four students with special needs, this documentary tracks their journey as they prepare for their school's debutante ball. First loves, fist fights and falls on the dance floor all combine with honest interviews with their parents, the school principal, and intimate moments captured in their homes plus a grand finale on the dance floor. This film provides a heartwarming insight into the day-to-day lives of these unique characters living with disability.
Bonnie Greer looks back on the extraordinary life of one of literature’s most significant and inspirational figures, Maya Angelou, through an exploration of the BBC archives.
When a student documentary crew decides to interview Julia, a puzzling young woman willing to share her sensitive past, the project grows increasingly uncomfortable for the subject as the director's relentless scrutiny and unethical transgressions soon start to blur the lines between reality and performance.
Film made for the thirtieth anniversary of the writer's death. A tribute to the cinema and life of the famous director-writer through the most spectacular sequences, transforming Anna Magnani, Totò and Ninetto Davoli, Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia into cartoons. The film refers to Pasolini's youth in Friuli with the collection of poems "Le ceneri di Gramsci", then moving on to his arrival in Rome with clips referring to the novels "Ragazzi di vita" and "Una vita violenta", made with the most varied techniques, up to the final episode which took place on 2 November 1975 at the Idroscalo in Ostia regarding the tragic murder of a scandalous intellectual.
A documentary about ultra-low budget guerrilla filmmaking, deep in the heart of Texas.
Waldbühne 2004: Tchaikovsky Night
A dedicated park ranger has protected his population of critically endangered black rhinos so well that they have run out of space. Cornered by ruthless poachers, the rhinos are at risk of turning on each other. His team must implement a daring plan to move 21 rhinos across the country and open a new safe haven.
Follows five contenders, ages 8 and 9 years old, as they compete in the Beginner Box Stock class, against better funded competitors from leading NASCAR families.
Robert Kongaika runs from his family to join the military and becomes the first Tongan US Air Force Colonel. This is the true story of the island traditions, faith, and family that made him into the father he is today.
In commemoration of the 100th birthday of lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, performers present classic Hammerstein songs.